Scholars Background: After graduating from university, Hu Yaozhong began his research in systems science and stochastic mechanics under the guidance of Academician Li Guoping. He later dedicated himself to the theory of probability statistics, stochastic systems, and their applications in finance, engineering, and quantum physics. In 1984, Hu graduated with a masters degree from the Wuhan Institute of Mathematical Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and continued working at the institute. He spent time in France from late 1986 to early 1988 and again from early 1991 to early 1992, learning from the internationally renowned probability scientist P. A. Meyer. During this period, he conducted research in random analysis and earned his doctoral degree in France in early 1992. Since August 2017, he has served as a Centennial Professor at the University of Alberta in Canada. Hu has published nearly a hundred papers in top journals in the fields of probability and statistics, including the Annals of Probability, Probability Theory and Related Fields, Annals of Applied Probability, Bernoulli, Journal of Functional Analysis, and Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. He has also published two monographs. Notably, a formula named after him has had a significant impact and appears as chapter titles or article titles in multiple graduate textbooks and leading journals. In 2015, he was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

Time and Location: April 15, 2025 | 15:00-16:30 (GMT+8), Room A423 (School of Management)

Language: Bilingual (English & Chinese)